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• History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this

  Karl Heinrich Marx

  Topics in History, Humanity

• Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

  Anne Sullivan

  Topics in History, Humanity, Knowledge

• The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Injustice, Human Rights

• My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Attitude, Humanity

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality

• The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Interdependence, Imitation

• There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

  John Astin

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Intuition

• The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Humanity, Justice

  Tags in Ethics, Human Rights

• Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Topics in Humanity, Kindness

• Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.

  Anne Wilson Schaef

  Topics in Humanity, Life, Nature

  Tags in Change/Growth

• The only real nation is humanity.

  Paul Farmer

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Patriotism, Globalism, Interdependence

• Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Humanity

• The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

  Don Marquis

  Topics in Humanity, Progress

• A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.

  Tenzin Gyatso

  Topics in Humanity, Religion

  Tags in Compassion, Human Rights

• My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Humanity, Justice, Service

• Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action . . . if you know these things about a man you can touch him at the core of his being.

  William Bernbach

  Topics in Humanity

• It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

  Ernest Becker

  Topics in Humanity, Leadership, Teamwork

• To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.

  Martha Nussbaum

  Topics in Humanity, Risk, Trust

  Tags in Ethics, Doubt/Uncertainty